Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Ann Yearsley
AY
became famous at the outset of her career as a primitive or untaught poet: a role she herself rejected in the course of a bitter row with her patron Hannah More
. She went...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
15 August 1914: The Panama Canal was officially opened....
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15 August 1914
The Panama Canal was officially opened.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Sarah Stone
SS
, a practising midwife who wrote and published in 1737, late in her career, is also a fine writer of polemic (her preface is a tirade against the theoretically educated young men who were...
1926: The Electricity Supply Act established a...
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1926
The Electricity Supply Act established a Central Electricity Board
and National Grid with a ten-year plan for distributing cheap, reliable, standardized power throughout England.
Hardyment, Christina. From Mangle to Microwave: The Mechanization of Household Work. Polity Press, 1988.
31
Electricity Council. Electricity Supply in Great Britain: A Chronology. Electricity Council, 1973.
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1891: The Birmingham Daily Gazette became the first...
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1891
The Birmingham Daily Gazette became the first British newspaper produced on a rotary press driven by electric power.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell, 1969.
163
4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...
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4 October 1957
At the Labour Party
conference at Brighton Aneurin Bevan
revealed that the party's executive committee was against the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Aneurin Bevan
1879: The Jersey Costume was introduced by Redfern's;...
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1879
The Jersey Costume was introduced by Redfern's
; it was made fashionable for a time by Lillie Langtry
.
Adburgham, Alison. Shops and Shopping 1800-1914: Where, and in What Manner the Well-Dressed Englishwoman Bought Her Clothes. Allen and Unwin, 1964.
192-3
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Liz Lochhead
LL
, a contemporary Scottish poet and dramatist, has written a number of sketches, monologues, revues, and full-length plays (some of them adapted from canonical works of the past). She names the Glasgow poet Edwin Morgan
1880: The Guildhall School of Music was founded...
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1880
The Guildhall School of Music
was founded by the Corporation of London; its first role was to train amateurs in music, but it quickly became the training ground for professional musicians and singers.
Arnold, Denis, editor. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 6th ed., Macmillan, 1980, 20 vols.
23 March 1866: The Jamaica Government Act was passed in...
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23 March 1866
The Jamaica Government Act was passed in the UK; it was the first of a number of instances in which a constitution was rewritten to incorporate rule from London.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
690
Wiseman, Herbert Victor. A Short History of the British West Indies. University of London Press, 1950.
81
3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Late 1944: In France (recently liberated from Nazi occupation)...
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Late 1944
In France (recently liberated from Nazi occupation) women at last received the vote.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
May 1918: The Cape to Cairo Railroad was substantially...
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May 1918
The Cape to Cairo Railroad was substantially completed; this made it possible to travel by rail and steamer (with the exception of approximately three hundred miles) from the southern tip of Africa to the north...
1896: Margaret Louisa Woods published Wild Justice:...
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
About 27 March 1782: Eliza Hancock, aged nineteen, married Jean-François...
Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997.
49, 51
15 March 1909: The Daily Sketch began publication in London;...
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15 March 1909
The Daily Sketch began publication in London; having absorbed the Daily Graphic in 1925, it became known as the The Daily Sketch and Daily Graphic from 1 June 1946, and eventually as the Daily Graphic.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
“1971: Britain’s oldest tabloid closes”. BBC News: On This Day, 11 May 1971.
February-May 1858: Arthur Hugh Clough's epistolary poem Amours...
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February-May 1858
Arthur Hugh Clough
's epistolary poem Amours de Voyage was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
Clough, Arthur Hugh. Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems. Editor Chew, Shirley, Manchester, UK, 1987.
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Mary Deverell
MD
is a remarkably interesting and talented miscellaneous writer of lower-class background and strong feminist views. Her essays and short poems (published in the later eighteenth century) are delightful, her longer narrative poem and tragic...
18 April 1874: Woman's Opinion ended publication in Lon...
After April 1916: The executions and arrests that followed...
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After April 1916
The executions and arrests that followed the Easter Rising in Ireland aided Sinn Féin
in becoming a mass movement.
Hickey, D. J., and J. E. Doherty. A New Dictionary of Irish History From 1800. Gill and Macmillan, 2003.
443
26 January 1871: The Committee for Securing Complete Medical...
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26 January 1871
The Committee for Securing Complete Medical Education to Women in Edinburgh was formed.
Blake, Catriona, and Wendy Savage. The Charge of the Parasols: Women’s Entry to the Medical Profession. Women’s Press, 1990.
132-3
By 1700: There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses...
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By 1700
There were estimated to be 2,000 coffee-houses (all-male social and sometimes political, intellectual or literary) establishments in London.
Carter, Philip J. “Men about town: representations of foppery and masculinity in early eighteenth-century urban society”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 31-57.
44 n. 20
Shapin, Steven. “At the Amsterdam”. London Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2006, pp. 12-14.
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29 November 1967: The UK relinquished rule over the East Aden...
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29 November 1967
The UK relinquished rule over the East Aden Protectorates; the People's Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed the next day.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
